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Saturday Reading List

You Can’t Have Self-Love Without Self-Respect: “Self-respect is helping someone in need when no one is there to witness it. Self-respect is enjoying the acquisition of knowledge, without others having to know that you know it. Self-respect is leaving the party when you’re tired, instead of staying up for everyone else.”

A wonderfully (terribly?) relateable piece about the shame of not having money and the stupid things we do to avoid feeling it.

Google’s former “happiness guru” (eyeball roll, I know) on observing thin slices of joy throughout the day as an exercise in becoming a happier person.

Faux fur has been found to contain real fur (from mink, rabbits, and even cats). “This is a problem in two ways. Firstly it’s a problem for the animals who are suffering awful, deprived lives and excruciating deaths on fur farms and traps around the world to produce these products. And secondly, it’s a problem for consumers, who are not being protected from unfair trading, who want to shop ethically and avoid the fur trade.”

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